Telescope Hosting

Since 2004, we are hosting several robotic telescopes and are now not taking new telescopes anymore, because it's already hard to maintain 18 robotic telescopes for a single person.

The telescopes currently installed are :

- A 40cm F/8 on a Valmeca VM200 mount mainly used for comet astrometry. This telescope used to be on a Paramount ME but had several problems, we are changing it for the VMA200 which will allow to observe in a fully automated mode. The group of french amateurs using this telescope is the third most productive group as far as comet astrometry.

- A TOA 1500 Takahashi on a mount we built here, used for astrophotography

- A 40cm F/8 Ritchey Chrétien from Astrosib on a Paramount ME used for an asteroid search program and astrophotography

- A 25cm F/3.6 ASA newtonian on a DDM60 ASA used for an asteroid search program

- A 40cm F/3.6 ASA on a Nova 120 direct drive mount used for asteroid searches

- A 40cm F/8 ODK from Orion Optics UK telescope on an ASA DDM85 mount used for variable star photometry. This telescope produces more CCD measurements of variable stars than any other telescope in the world.

- A RILA500 50cm F/5 from Officina Stellare on a Nova 120 direct drive mount used for variable star photometry and astrophotography.

Telescope Time Rental

Hosting

Atacama Lodge is located a few kilometers south of San Pedro de Atacama, in the chilean Andes, very close to the triple custom point between Chile, Argentina and Bolivia. It is the ideal place to enjoy the Atacama desert, far from the noise of San Pedro